Electronic structure study of the high-pressure vibrational spectrum of FeS2 pyrite

J Phys Chem B. 2005 Nov 24;109(46):22067-73. doi: 10.1021/jp053540x.

Abstract

Plane-wave density functional calculations are used to investigate the pressure dependence of the geometry and Gamma-point phonons of FeS(2) pyrite up to 150 GPa. The linear response method is employed to calculate the vibrational properties. Raman-active modes are in excellent agreement with the experimental data available up to 50 GPa,(1) and we predict the evolution with pressure of the IR-active modes for which no high-pressure spectroscopic data have been reported so far. Over the wide pressure range investigated here, all vibrational frequencies depend nonlinearly on pressure; their pressure dependence is quantified by determining the full set of mode Grüneisen parameters and their pressure derivatives.